Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse

Informationen zum Autor Anastasia Vakulenko is a lecturer in law at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse looks at relevant law and surrounding discourses in order to examine the assumptions and limits of the debates around the issue of Islamic veiling that has become so topical in recent years. For some, Islamic veiling indicates a lack of autonomy, the oppression of women and the threat of Islamic radicalism to western secular values. For others, it suggests a positive autonomous choice, a new kind of gender equality and a legitimate exercise of one's freedom of religion - a treasured right in democratic societies. This book finds that, across seemingly diverse legal and political traditions, a set of discursive frameworks - the preoccupation with autonomy and choice; the imperative of gender equality; and a particular western understanding of religion and religious subjectivity - shape the positions of both proponents and opponents of various restrictions on Islamic veiling. Rather than take a position on one or the other side of the debate, the book focuses on the frameworks themselves, highlighting their limitations Zusammenfassung Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse provides a sopisticated analysis of relevant legislation and case law in order to examine the assumptions and limits of the debates surrounding the issue of Islamic veiling. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Islamic Veiling Restrictions, an Overview 3. Autonomy and Choice 4. Gender Equality 5. Religion and Secularism

Product details

• Authors: Anastasia Vakulenko, Vakulenko Anastasia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2012
• EAN: 9780415565509
• ISBN: 978-0-415-56550-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Islam, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Gender & the Law, Religion: general, Islamic Law, Gender studies, gender groups, Social Law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Systems of law: Islamic law, Social law and Medical law